Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO
Just two months after listing its first venture fund on the stock market, Robinhood is preparing to launch a second.…
GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills
General Motors has laid off more than 10% of its IT department, or about 600 salaried employees — in a…
Finally, texts between Android and iPhone users can be end-to-end encrypted
At long last, Android and iPhone users will be able to send each other end-to-end encrypted text messages. On Monday,…
Daniel Ek-backed defense tech Helsing to raise $1.2B at $18B valuation
Five-year-old European military drone startup Helsing is reportedly close to raising a new $1.2 billion round at about an $18…
Bravo is creating unscripted microdramas for the Peacock app
It’s about time that the microdrama trend has gone mainstream. As microdrama apps like ReelShort and DramaBox quietly rake in…
Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator
Digg is back from the dead. Again. Just months after launching, the reboot of Kevin Rose’s once-popular link-sharing site shut…
‘Too early’ to talk IPO, Redwood Materials’ incoming CFO says
Redwood Materials has finally found a new chief financial officer roughly a year and a half after its last one…
NYT’s Wordle to become a TV game show
The New York Times is betting that the Wordle craze isn’t over yet. On Monday, the Times announced that it…
TikTok launches an ad-free subscription plan in the UK
TikTok is introducing an ad-free subscription plan in the U.K. that costs £3.99 (about $5.44 USD) per month. The new…
There aren’t enough rockets for space data centers. Cowboy Space raised $275 million to build them.
The apparently insatiable demand for AI compute has data center entreprenuers looking to the stars. There’s a key problem: There…